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Letter "H" » human beings
«Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
absolute, absolutes, beings, capacity, granted, human beings, infinite, take for granted, taking
«Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings»
Author: Lou Ann Walker
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
beings, consider, goals, human beings, students, theories, whit
«There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
acquire, beings, complete, developments, few, fragment, fragmented, fragmenting, human beings, human development, illumination, illuminations, instant, laborious, mosaic, receive, scale, scaled, scaling, small-scale, small, stagger, staggered, staggering, staggers, successive
«One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| Keywords:
achievement, affection, aspire, beast, direct, direct marketing, For each, gnaw, gnawed, gnawing, gnaws, gnaw at, human beings, idol, in a higher place, market, mutual, mutual affection, prey, preyed, preying, preys, the market, to a higher place
«Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
aspire, felt, genuinely, human beings, probable, sainthood, saints, temptation
«Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
accepted, closest, continue, distance, distances, For each, human beings, infinite, realization, side by side, sky
«There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
account, broader, broadest, coherent, comprehensive, flexible, fuller, fullers, human beings, immense, longing, painful, This Life
«Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.»
«Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
beings, destiny, human beings, No problem, solved
«I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
aloud, beings, doctrine, ethical, human beings, on the whole, publicly, subscribe, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing, thinking aloud, trash, trashed, Trashing
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